Xenorose:

Xenorose:

Actually, rictuar, he didn't get the Nobel prize for discovering it, neither did he actually discover it.
It was known before him to such as Hertz and Becquerel who didn't quite understand it or couldn't explain it correctly.
Einstein received the Nobel prize for explaining and proving the photoelectric effect by using Palnck's idea the of quantum nanture of electrons energy.
Funny thing is Palnck was adamant that Einstein is wrong about it even though Einstein was only proving Planck to be right (and was at that time pretty much alone in doing so).

@Garlix, proved in the mathematical sense (which science does and counts on to exist, if you couldn't prove anything mathematically it would be useless and scientists would be out-of-job).